Prayer transforms a person, and places, such as the Holy Trinity Church, contribute to gaining spiritual balance, raising vitality, peace. The time spent here is priceless, you want to come back here again and again.
Temple History
The Holy Trinity Church is a landmark of the Ural Territory and is located in the Chelyabinsk region in the southern part of the city of Miass, namely in Stargorod, which is located along the western border of the Chashkovsky mountain range.
The building was founded in 1887 on the site of a wooden chapel of the 19th century, next to the cemetery. The church was built at the expense of local merchants. The construction was carried out by the peasant Peter Saraev, a native of the Nizhny Novgorod province. The project was led by the merchant N. F. Belyaev. The temple cost investors 12.5 thousand silver rubles. It was lit on December 8, 1889. Miass has become even more attractive for Christians. The Holy Trinity Church turned out to be extremely comfortable and durable.
I was in the templea polished carved oak iconostasis was installed, which the merchant N. F. Belyaev brought from Moscow, where it was specially made in the workshop of Mr. Akhapkin. The walls were painted with paint, the floor was laid with gray marble tiles, and the domes were made of English white iron. The icons for the temple were painted by artists: Malov from the capital and Shipilev from Ufa.
In April 1896, a bell tower was founded nearby with charitable funds from Lydia and Nadezhda Romanovsky, who invested about three thousand silver rubles in the construction.
Investors N. F. Belyaev, M. P. Populovsky and E. M. Simonov, who were directly involved in the construction of the religious building, were awarded the blessing of the Holy Synod in the form of a letter.
The fate of the temple
The city of Miass has become an extremely important spiritual shrine for Christians. The Holy Trinity Church was originally intended only for the funeral of the dead. That is why the Soviet authorities left it untouched, unlike the others (24 churches were destroyed). From 1938 to 1944, the Miass Church of the Life-Giving Trinity was closed by the decision of the Soviet government, but was not destroyed. Church land was confiscated, and property passed from one hand to another for a long time. In 1941, the building was converted into a hostel for Asians who came to earn money at the construction site of an automobile plant in the city of Miass.
Holy Trinity Church in 1944 experienced a second birth and became available to believers again. For a long time it was the only temple in the area.
Years later, Sunday school opened its doors for adults and children (1994). In 2000, the domes of the temple were restored and new crosses were erected on them. In 2001, a bookstore was opened here, which still offers a huge assortment of Orthodox literature. In 2004, the temple celebrated its 115th anniversary. By this date, the bell tower was updated and a whole ensemble of various bells was installed. Now there are 10 of them, as it was before.
Everyone who comes to the city of Miass notices the Holy Trinity Church in the first place. To date, it stands out with its original color scheme, a combination of red-pink and blue colors. Next to it is an ancient Miass cemetery.
Holy Trinity Church: Cemetery
The exact date of this burial place is unknown, but it is said that it existed before 1840. Initially, a chapel was built next to the cemetery. It was there that they used to perform the rite of burial of the dead. For some time the city of Miass was without a church. The Holy Trinity Church appeared there a little later.
The Romanovskys, who actively participated in the construction of the temple, the merchants Kuznetsovs, Belyaevs, the mother and father of the gold miner E. M. Simonov, I. I. Redikortsev Sr., who was a mining engineer and discoverer of the coal basin in Chelyabinsk, as well as families of priests. Well-known Russian doctors G. K.
Moderntemple life
The South Ural city of Miass, the Holy Trinity Church in which is a national treasure, is currently meeting all believers.
On the territory of the church there is an Orthodox Sunday school, a bookstore and a church shop. Now not only funerals are held here, but also weddings, divine services, consecrations, communions, confessions and baptisms.
Arrival at the temple of the relics of St. Matrona
In November 2014, the city of Miass celebrated its 241st year. The Holy Trinity Church of the relics of the Matrona of Moscow met on November 17, just on the eve of this event. Prior to this, the shrine visited Chelyabinsk and Zlatoust. The ark with the relics was received by the head of the clergy, Archpriest George Kretsu.
Thousands of townspeople came to bow to the shrine, because the righteous woman was always not indifferent to people's prayers and helped in troubles, sorrows and illnesses.
The shrine was in the temple for the first time, people could bow to it at any time from 8 o'clock in the morning.
Holy Trinity Church has a history through which more than one generation of people have passed, and in 2014 she celebrated her next birthday, she turned 125 years old. This holy place continues to give grace to the soul, pacifies and heals hundreds of people.
